"In his sly installations and sculptural work, Huang often melded techniques derived from the history of Chinese art and international avant-garde movements alike. His ability to deftly comb…
Her dancers, she tells Marina Harss, "are very excited. I want to give them confidence, a sense of security and, above all, justice. I think there are dancers who haven't had an opportunity …
"It's that disconnect between long- and short-term interests that makes frothy articles so frustrating. The feeling of curiosity promised you'd learn something and, admittedly, you did " now…
"There are different types of creepiness, and the array of things that creep us out ranges from dolls that are too lifelike to clowns in places where clowns should not be… The basic premis…
Way back in the '90s, Michele Loud applied to be a researcher for the show just a few weeks after she flunked the test to be a contestant; a year later, out of the blue, they called her in. …
"Part of the appeal is the sheer human spectacle provided by costumed attendees (or playtrons, in Renfaire-ese). Though the village is ostensibly set in the 16th century, it most accurately …
William Paul Gerhard, an engineer with the British Fire Prevention Committee, stated in a report that by May 1897 there had been 1,115 recorded theater fires in Europe and America (since rec…
In 1999, a small college in Kilgore, TX " in an area where, at the time, gay men were routinely beaten and sometimes murdered " staged Angels in America, angry protests from local fundamenta…
Who is being produced on our stages? What kinds of characters are appearing on our stages? And what do these plays look like in terms of form and thematic content? " Howlround
In 2006, when plans for the Philharmonie de Paris were announced, the venue, with a flashy, futuristic design by starchitect Jean Nouvel, was supposed to open in 2013 at a cost of €173…
Next year, St. John's Co-Cathedral in the Maltese capital, Valletta, will open a €4 million annex as a home for Caravaggio's 1607 St. Jerome Writing and the world's largest complete se…
"The equation of upscale readers and upscale brands with profit, projecting an aspirational image of the ideal consumer through both editorial and ads so that vulnerable readers would chase …
"If the judges felt that they needed the world to know about these two novels, shouldn't that be a cause for celebration? It seems to me that the work of these two fine writers is being over…
"Ms. Abrera, 41, joined Ballet Theater in 1996. Five years later she was promoted from the corps de ballet to the rank of soloist. A serious injury in 2008 made further advancement difficult…
"A meeting of Australia's arts and cultural ministers in Adelaide … has seen a major overhaul of the way the Major Performing Arts sector is funded through the Australia Council for the Ar…
At this past summer's Salzburg Festival, director Peter Sellars turned Mozart's opera Idomeneo into a warning about climate change. Not even three months later, the Festival announced a big …
In 1502, Leonardo submitted to the Ottoman sultan a design for a bridge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul that would have been, at the time, by far the world's longest, and tall enough for sh…
After watching Leonard Bernstein's "Bach Transmogrified" Young People's Concert (back when I was a young person), I went to Smalltown USA's local music store the very next day hoping to find…
Until recently, it may have seemed that the singer and songwriter Anne Phillips had resigned as a performer. She had not. Coincidentally, one of her colleagues on her most recent album, pian…
On Stalin: "People underestimate the level of control that Stalin maintained. I once tried to count the number of people in the arts that Stalin controlled personally " it was close to one t…
How do I not love the Museum of Modern Art's reinstallation of its permanent collection in it expanded, renovated galleries? Let me count the ways. " Lee Rosenbaum
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
From 2009: Film was the master medium of the twentieth century. Within a few years of its invention, it had supplanted live theater and the novel as the main way in which most people experie…
"Don't ever try to learn from other people's mistakes. Learn what other people do right." An unknown first-century rabbi (quoted in Peter F. Drucker, Adventures of a Bystander)
The Army is forming a new unit with a similar mandate to be composed of commissioned officers of the Army Reserves who are museum directors or curators, archivists, conservators and archaeol…